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This study aimed to identify trajectories of household chaos during the COVID pandemic and to investigate their associations with youth mental and physical health outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Data were collected from 506 adults (\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>age<\/jats:sub>\n                      \u2009=\u200942.8,\n                      <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>age<\/jats:sub>\n                      \u2009=\u20099.15) and 93 youth (\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>age<\/jats:sub>\n                      \u2009=\u200914.5,\n                      <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sub>age<\/jats:sub>\n                      \u2009=\u20091.63). Using a retrospective cross-sectional design, participants reported their experiences across the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents and youth provided reports of household chaos for pre-, mid-, and post-COVID timepoints and on youth health-related outcomes at pre- and post. Latent Class Growth Analysis (LCGA), Analysis of Covariance, and Analysis of Variance were used.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using parent and youth self-report data, LCGA identified three trajectories of household chaos (low-chaos \u201cthriving,\u201d 35.2%; high-chaos \u201cworsening,\u201d 24.5%; and moderate-chaos \u201cresilience,\u201d 40.3%). Dyadic and triadic analyses revealed differing parent and youth household chaos perceptions. Within the same family, younger youth showed greater concordance with parents compared to older youth. Youth on the high-chaos worsening trajectory exhibited higher levels of behavioral problems, emotional-behavioral dyscontrol, emotional distress-anxiety, sleep disturbance, and lower levels of positive affect and well-being, compared to one or both other trajectory groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Findings highlight meaningful differences in parent and youth pandemic-related household chaos experiences, which are linked to youth health outcomes. Public health intervention and prevention programs should account for both shared and nonshared family experiences to better support youth well-being as part of future pandemic preparedness.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/frcha.2026.1717371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,22]],"date-time":"2026-06-22T05:38:14Z","timestamp":1782106694000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Trajectories of perceived household chaos and youth health outcomes across the COVID-19: insights from individual, dyadic, and triadic family analyses"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Chunyuan","family":"Xi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Family Resiliency Center, College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","place":["Urbana, IL, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jacinda Kay","family":"Dariotis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Family Resiliency Center, College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","place":["Urbana, IL, United States"]},{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","place":["Urbana, IL, United States"]},{"name":"Carl R. 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